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Philip Henry Sheridan, Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army . | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: April 7, 1864., [Electronic resource] | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments., Sixteenth battery Massachusetts Light Artillery . (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 2 (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 4 (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2, chapter 16 (search)
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 5 : (search)
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 6 : (search)
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 10 (search)
Last letter of a Deserter.
--Our cavalry, under Col. H. Maury, recently captured a number of deserters from the Confederate army, who had been hiding in the woods in Mississippi. One of them, named Mitchell, was among those who were hung.
The following is a copy of a letter written by him just before his execution:
Jones County, March 12, 1864 My Dear Wife:
--I avail myself, through the kindness of a friend and minister, to write you a few lines, the last communication you will ever have from me on this earth.
It is very painful for me never to see you any more, and in this I bid you a final farewell.
My child!
my only child!
be a good girl and try to meet me in heaven!
My dear wife, I can only say to you that I am gone to eternity ere you read this letter, and I wists you to do the best you can in this world and try to meet me in the better land.
I have a strong hope that I shall be better off. I am going to hang by the neck, which is a torture to my